Aett_Thorn

While I agree with this, it does hurt sets that rely on resistance as their primary form of mitigation, especially when compared to Defense-based sets, considering the ease of which each can get to their respective 90% mitigation marks.

And it is unlikely to be changed, which is sad. This is not only due to the fact that people would complain that their characters were nerfed if the Defense values were changed on IO sets, but also to the ability of certain sets to get high Defense AND high Resistance from sets.

I think it would have been a lot better to have a better mix of Defense and Resistance in IO sets from the beginning. But the likelihood of it changing now is slim to none.

And, since the game is still balanced on SOs, you're not likely to see Resistance values bumped up on Resistance-based sets, since with SOs they still give comparible survivability.

Except that Maneuvers is a very weak buff to your Defense, whereas Weave is a bigger buff. Weave is over twice the Def buff that Maneuvers is, and takes less endurance to run.

IOs don't affect your appearance.

They also don't become obsolete every five levels, requiring a costume change when you get new stuff.

I agree 100% with the dancing Cat.

Question: why do you need to do it without Shivans? They're not that hard to get.

We cannot do this in the live version.

What he is talking about is a feature that is going to be in the next Expansion of the game, called Going Rogue, which will allow for side-switching of a sort.

Actually, wouldn't "the masses" get the least out of this? You know, those people who don't have a lot, wouldn't transfer a whole bunch. Whereas the people that do the hard stuff ("the few" in your definition), would get the most out of it, being able to transfer large sums to their other characters.

Well, yes, the Brute will out-damage the Tanker in the long run, but the Tanker will be more survivable. That's because of the focus of the ATs are different. Brutes are more akin to Scrappers than Tanks. That doesn't mean that Tankers at higher level won't do good damage, just that it will be lower than Brutes, mainly by design.

If you're going for an Elec/Elec hero, I'd say go Scrapper. /Elec Melee takes a while to get going for Tankers.

By a heavy-hitting set, I mean a set like Super Strength or Stone Melee, which has endurance-intensive, recharge-heavy, but high-damage attacks. Electric Armor not only has an endurance-regain power, but it also has a passive power which improves Recharge. This alleviates a decent amount of the problems these attack sets have.

Compare those to a set like Dual Blades, which has mainly lower damage, faster recharging powers. Since they recharge quickly anyways, they don't benefit hugely from +Recharge, and their endurance costs aren't that huge in the first place, so it's not much of a concern there, either.

So, if you were going to make a Tanker, I'd go Elec/Stone, or some combination thereof, if you wanted to do a lot of damage.

I've used it on a Scrapper, Stalker, and a Brute now. It'll be a definite difference for any Tanker. Since Tankers usually have mobs on all sides of them, and with the radius as small as it is, you usually will NOT hit the people behind you. An arc behind you is usually safe, since it's out of the radius. However, if there are mobs behind the one you target, then they will likely be hit, whereas they might not in a normal PBAoE. So it's a give and take there, but for a Tanker in the center of a spawn, it'll likely be more noticeable.

Influence stopped being conceptual in-game a long time ago, with the release of Wentworths, where you can now transfer it to anyone, even if you have no idea who they are. Influence and Infamy are now straight-up forms of currency, despite their names.

I'm still not in favor of the idea 100%, but let's not pretend that Influence isn't money with a fancier name.

Agreed that it's RARELY a good idea. For many reasons. OP: go take a look at several recent threads about it, and read up on why it's a bad idea, please.

But how would they be the same character if they needed to change their name on one server?

Dude, it was hyperbole. It wasn't a strawman argument. It was to point out that some work does need to be done, even by casual players. It was to point out that the more work you put in, the more you get out. But apparently you missed those points.

I also like these two quotes from the very same post:


You say that we're trying to cast you in a derogatory light, but then insult us a few lines up. Way to go.



Your point was that it shouldn't take work to find a team. It doesn't. What does take work is to find a team faster, and potentially better teams. There's nothing wrong with that, and is expected in EVERY. SINGLE. MMO. If you think that you can't find a team, on the most populous server, with just broadcast or setting the team flag, then I don't know what to tell you. I can do just that on a much less populated server. So, the very thing that you say that we should want on a more populated server is exactly what we do have on the servers we're currently on. So why would we want to change that?